When you have an 8-digit serial number, the second number shows the Service Command. This narrows down where the person enlisted or was drafted. If you have a serial number for a member of the WAC, look at the number after the letter prefix.There’s an exception.Remember those serial nu...
And it’s not as if France is Russia. There was no Communist Revolution to explain away the failure of ‘stocks for the long run’ here. It wasn’t even due to the devastation inflicted by two World Wars. Rather, apost-war bear marketfed by industrial nationalisation, high inflation, ...
they sought to portray everyone who fought against them as Nazis ("fascists"), including all the Lithuanian pro-freedom activists. In the Soviet historiography, "fascist" was a catch-all term used for many non-communists,
It was Jews who started the Feminist Movement, which pushed women to the forefront (or else….) of the labor market, classifying marriage as some throwback to chattel prostitution or slavery. Now these Jewish women are publishing articles that further deride those males they fought to subjugate...
During the2008-2009 financial crisis, the U.S. dollar gained against the world because the world found relative sanctuary in U.S. assets. This was even though many Americans were freaking out about whether they'd have a job the next week! When Russia invaded Ukraine, the USD strengthened ...
That period of time did not last for long. The stench of rotten food was pretty much substituted with another kind of stench. Soon there were more dead people then spoiled food in the city. But even later, you would never know what you could find in destroyed and abandoned houses. Maybe...
As per % of GDP spent fighting a foreign war, it was one of the cheapest wars ever fought. Look elsewhere. Wolf Richter Apr 4, 2017 at 6:03 pm Yeah but…. There are military expenditures that are not in the budget of the DOD, such as nuclear weapons which are in the budget ...
The founders have just fought a war against a tyrannical ruler – their desire was to maintain the power of force in the hands of the people via the state. In the current absence of a PEOPLES organized militia (remember, the Federal government has taken over and usurped this body) the rig...
“A crown jewel of open space,”Tempelhoft, a favorite of citizens and tourists alike, was at one time one of the main pre-WW2 airports. The home of Lufthansa, it was constructed back in 1923 and continued operating until 2008. After its closing, Berliners fought hard to keep it as a...
This tank fought from the first days of the war and really was a great little tank. It’s too bad that the Sherman, all models, outclassed it in just about every important way. The Sherman had better armor, firepower, and similar mobility. Even...